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• Putin says to keep cooperating with U.S.-led coalition over Syria

  26-11-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Denis Pinchuk and Elizabeth Pineau MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will keep cooperating with the United States and its partners to fight Islamic State in Syria, but that cooperation will be in jeopardy if there are any repeats of Turkey's shooting down of a Russian jet, Russia's Vladimir Putin said. Speaking after talks in the Kremlin with French President Francois Hollande, Putin voiced lingering anger at Turkey's actions, saying he viewed the downing of the jet as an act of betrayal by a country
  
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• Stafford throws 5 TD passes, Lions beat Eagles 45-14

  26-11-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Stafford dropped back and perfectly lofted the ball where only Calvin Johnson could catch it.
  
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• New videos raise fresh questions in Chicago police shooting of black teen

  26-11-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Newly released police dashboard camera videos from the scene of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago patrolman could raise fresh questions over documentation of the killing, as the city braced for an organized protest march on Friday. Audio and video should be automatically activated on the cameras, according to police department policy. Van Dyke on Tuesday became the first Chicago police officer in decades to be charged with murder for on-duty use of lethal force and is in jail p
  
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• Turkey seeks to calm tensions with Russia after jet downed: PM Davutoglu in UK Times

  26-11-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey will work with Russia and its allies to calm tensions after a Russian jet was downed near the Syrian border, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an opinion piece published by Britain's Times newspaper. Davutoglu also said that discussions were taking place in the wake of the incident, which has sent Ankara's relations with Moscow to their worst in recent memory.
  
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• Russia, France agree to tighten cooperation against IS

  26-11-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of France and Russia agreed Thursday to tighten cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group, although they remained at odds over their approach toward Syrian President Bashar Assad.
  
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• Niger says Boko Haram gunmen kill 18 in village bordering Nigeria

  26-11-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Niger's government said on Thursday that Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in an attack on a village in Niger's southern border area of Diffa on the Nigerian border. The Islamist militants rarely claim attacks but they are based in the north of Nigeria and often launch cross border attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The gunmen arrived in the village of Gogone near the shores of Lake Chad on foot and fired indiscriminately on residents and attacked their
  
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• Hollande, Putin agree to work more closely to combat Islamic State in Syria

  26-11-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Elizabeth Pineau and Denis Pinchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - France and Russia will exchange intelligence on Islamic State and other rebel groups to improve the effectiveness of their aerial bombing campaigns in Syria, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday after talks with Vladimir Putin. Speaking after a working dinner in the Kremlin with Putin, Hollande said they had agreed to target only Islamic State and similar jihadi groups in Syria.
  
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• Turkey-Russia spat over downed Russian warplane escalates

  26-11-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A tug-of-war over a Russian warplane downed by a Turkish fighter jet at the border with Syria escalated Thursday, with Moscow drafting a slew of economic sanctions against Turkey and the Turkish president defiantly declaring that his military will shoot down any new intruder.
  
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• Killing ramps up fears of Venezuela poll violence

  26-11-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday the fatal shooting of an opposition leader appeared to be a gangland score-settling, dismissing claims it was politically motivated ahead of elections. The event was also attended by Lilian Tintori, the wife of a jailed opposition leader and a high-profile critic of Maduro. Polls have indicated Maduro's socialist government could lose its majority in the National Assembly in next month's vote, potentially weakening his grip on power.
  
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• CNN's Erdogan interview

  26-11-2015 22:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who tells her that Turkey will not apologize for downing the Russian warplane.
  
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• France and Russia agree to 'coordinate' strikes against IS

  26-11-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that Russia and France had agreed to coordinate strikes against Islamic State (IS) jihadists after talks with Vladimir Putin, who said Moscow could avoid bombing "healthy" opposition groups. "The strikes against Daesh (IS) will be intensified and be the object of coordination," Hollande said at a press conference with his Russian counterpart, adding that the strikes would focus on the transportation of oil. Hollande was in Moscow for the last leg
  
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• Tunisia detains 30, identifies bomber after attack

  26-11-2015 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities have detained 30 people suspected of having extremism links after a suicide bombing targeting presidential guards, and identified the bomber as a local street vendor.
  
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• Big balloons, heavy security for NYC Thanksgiving parade

  26-11-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Americans paused Thursday to celebrate their blessings despite terrorism fears and racial tensions over fatal police shootings across the country. A record number of police officers patrolled the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, while St. Louis resumed its annual parade, canceled last year amid protests over Michael Brown's death.
  
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• Putin: al-Assad's fate in hands of Syrians

  26-11-2015 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• France, Russia agree to exchange intelligence in Syria bombing campaigns: Hollande

  26-11-2015 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France and Russia agreed on Thursday to exchange intelligence on Islamic State and other militant groups in Syria to help improve the effectiveness of their aerial bombing campaigns in the country, French President Francois Hollande said. Speaking after talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hollande said they had also agreed to target only Islamic State and similar jihadi groups.
  
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• Russia accepts ban from world athletics over doping

  26-11-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia has accepted its "full suspension" from world athletics over widespread doping without even requesting a hearing, the IAAF said Thursday. The most severe punishment ever meted out by the International Association of Athletics Federations was made formal at a meeting of the world body's governing council in Monaco. Russia, which had previously denied any wrongdoing, vowed at the meeting to work with foreign inspectors so that it could be welcomed back into international competition.
  
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• The Latest: Friday's protest to target main shopping area

  26-11-2015 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local):
  
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• Lawmakers: Agency not doing enough against dengue fever

  26-11-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii state Sen. Russell Ruderman worries whenever there's a mosquito buzzing in his home.
  
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• Caught short, Belgian army borrows American body armor

  26-11-2015 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Belgium borrowed American body armor to protect troops ordered onto the streets of Brussels this week to confront a perceived threat from Islamic State to mount attacks similar to those in Paris. Explaining that it lacked modern lightweight armor for all the troops patrolling outside metro stations and other key sites in the capital, the Belgian armed forces said in a statement on Thursday that they had borrowed an unspecified number of bullet-proof vests from U.S. military installations in Belg
  
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• Polish supermarkets want turnover tax to hit foreign competition

  26-11-2015 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Polish supermarket chains say the government's proposed turnover tax needs major changes if it is to act as a weapon against foreign competitors dominating the Polish market. The eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party that won last month's general election has not explicitly said that the new tax is meant to handicap Britain's Tesco, France's Carrefour and Auchan or Germany's Kaufland and Metro, and other foreign players. The party has said the tax revenue will fund generous family benefits and
  
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• Putin says Russia is ready to cooperate with opposition groups fighting Islamic State

  26-11-2015 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Putin says Russia is ready to cooperate with opposition groups fighting Islamic State.
  
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• Putin says Assad's military is 'natural ally' in fight against Islamic State group

  26-11-2015 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Putin says Assad's military is 'natural ally' in fight against Islamic State group .
  
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• Putin says Assad's fate should be in the hands of Syrian people

  26-11-2015 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Putin says Assad's fate should be in the hands of Syrian people.
  
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• Rock band supports bullied girl's dreams

  26-11-2015 20:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's another example of how one person's story can make a big impact.
  
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• Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea

  26-11-2015 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alexander Winning and Pavel Polityuk SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. The blackouts - the result of pro-Ukrainian activists blowing up the electricity lines which supply Crimea in southern Ukraine over the weekend - are causing misery for the population
  
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• Chicago: 'Lord, when is this going to end?'

  26-11-2015 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Marlin Daniels was driving when police pulled him over and said they were tracking cars like his that had been reported stolen.
  
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• Guy V. Lewis, coach of Phi Slama Jama teams, dies at 93

  26-11-2015 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Former University of Houston men's basketball coach Guy V. Lewis, best known for leading the Phi Slama Jama teams of the 1980s, has died. He was 93.
  
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• Belgium eases alert level but threat still 'serious'

  26-11-2015 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Thomas Escritt and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium lowered the security threat level in Brussels on Thursday, ending six days on maximum alert, but the prime minister warned that the risk of a Paris-style attack remained serious. "We remain on guard," Charles Michel told a news conference. The safety of large gatherings such as sports events would be reviewed case by case, Michel added.
  
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• 2 Turkish journalists jailed over Syria smuggling reports

  26-11-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has ordered two prominent opposition journalists jailed pending trial on terrorism charges and revealing state secrets.
  
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• Venezuela opposition figure's killing was gangland hit: president

  26-11-2015 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday the shooting dead of an opposition leader appeared to be a gangland score-settling, dismissing claims it was politically motivated ahead of key elections.
  
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• Utah man passes airport security with stolen boarding pass

  26-11-2015 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man with a stolen boarding pass got through airport security in Salt Lake City and checked in at a gate for a flight to California before he was caught earlier this month, authorities have disclosed.
  
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• Report on whether Iran sought nuclear bomb will not be clear cut: U.N

  26-11-2015 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francois Murphy and Shadia Nasralla VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. report on whether Iran has in the past carried out work related to nuclear weapons will not reach a definitive conclusion on the subject, the chief of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Thursday. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is required under a deal between world powers and Iran which provides for a lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program. A c
  
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• Feds plan new guidelines on toxic algae in lakes, rivers

  26-11-2015 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — New national guidelines are being developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to protect swimmers and kayakers from the growing threats posed by toxic algae in lakes and rivers.
  
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• Putin warns of 'serious consequences'

  26-11-2015 20:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Concern is growing over how Vladimir Putin might respond to Turkey's downing of a Russian plane. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
  
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• Turkey: We warned jet

  26-11-2015 20:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Turkey defends shooting down Russian plane, says it was violating it's airspace. Russia says there was no warning. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
  
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• 3 Palestinians die in clashes; Israel toughens fence

  26-11-2015 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Three Palestinians were shot and killed in separate clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Thursday as Israel announced plans to strengthen a fence near the flashpoint city of Hebron in an effort to contain a two-month spate of violence.
  
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• Russia seeks economic revenge against Turkey over jet

  26-11-2015 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Humeyra Pamuk and Vladimir Soldatkin ISTANBUL/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting". In an escalating war of words, President Tayyip Erdogan responded to Russian accusations that Turkey has been buying oil and gas from Islamic State in Syria by accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and
  
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• Davis Cup debut for Edmund, alongside Murray

  26-11-2015 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kyle Edmund will make his Davis Cup debut for Britain on Friday when he joins Andy Murray in trying to hand their country its first overall success in the tennis showpiece since 1936. The 20-year-old South African-born player will become just the sixth man in the 115-year history of the competition to make his debut in the final when he plays the opening rubber in Ghent against Belgium's top player, David Goffin. Murray, the world number two and the inspiration behind Britain's march into the Da
  
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• The Latest: Belgium says likely Paris fugitive gets help

  26-11-2015 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest on the attacks in Paris and security alert in Brussels. All times local:
  
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• Russia targets Turkish economy over downed warplane

  26-11-2015 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia on Thursday pledged broad retaliatory measures against Turkey's economy in revenge for the downing of one of its warplanes, as recriminations between Moscow and Ankara reached fever pitch. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rebuffed his Russian counterpart's demands for an apology and said Vladimir Putin had snubbed a phone call from him after Tuesday's incident. The downing of the plane on the Syrian border has raised fears it could fuel a wider geopolitical conflict, and hig
  
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• Sebastian Coe gives up role with Nike amid scrutiny

  26-11-2015 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONACO (AP) — Sebastian Coe gave up his role Thursday as a special adviser to Nike Inc. that left the new president of the IAAF open to accusations that he was vulnerable to conflicts of interest.
  
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• Mali says arrests two suspects linked to Bamako hotel attack

  26-11-2015 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mali's security ministry arrested two people suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the country's capital that killed 20 people, the ministry said on Thursday. At least two armed men attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on Friday in a dawn raid, killing six Russians, three Chinese and an American among others, in the worst jihadist strike on the West African country in years. "There are two suspects arrested," said Amadou Sangho, a spokesman for the ministry.
  
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• Germany plans tax incentives to build new homes for refugees

  26-11-2015 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany plans tax incentives for building apartments over the next three years, to avoid housing shortages as an influx of refugees increases demand, the Finance Ministry said in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. Secretary of Housing Barbara Hendricks estimates that some 350,000 apartments will be needed each year, and only 245,000 were built last year. The tenant association DMB said Germany, which has roughly 40 million homes, needs 800,000 flats.
  
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• Terror 'predictable' -- soccer star Kompany

  26-11-2015 19:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The failure to deliver the "beauty of democracy" was one of the chief reasons behind the Paris attacks, says Belgian soccer star Vincent Kompany.
  
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• Heat grows on US for independent probe into MSF hospital strike

  26-11-2015 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pressure was growing Thursday for an international inquiry into a catastrophic US strike on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan, after the military detailed "tragic but avoidable" errors but refused to say if there would be an independent investigation. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) slammed American forces for "gross negligence" Wednesday after the US commander in Afghanistan said the October 3 strike on the charity-run hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was "caused primarily by human error". Ge
  
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• IAAF president Coe steps down from Nike role

  26-11-2015 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IAAF president Sebastian Coe bowed to intense pressure and announced Thursday that he had stepped down from his paid role as an ambassador for Nike to focus more on cleaning up world track and field's beleaguered governing body. "It is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled," said Coe after an IAAF Council meeting. The situation was "not good for IAAF and not good for Nike".
  
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• Belgium on high alert for tennis final

  26-11-2015 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Top tennis players tend to live in a bubble -- they stay in the finest hotels, get chauffeured during tournaments and usually fly first-class.
  
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• Brazil arrests push Petrobras probe back to Rousseff's door

  26-11-2015 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alonso Soto and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff’s austerity program to fix Brazil's shaky finances is again in trouble after her point man in the Senate was arrested in a widening corruption scandal, and it could reignite calls for her impeachment. "Unfortunately the political crisis deepens further and complicates our agenda in Congress." Delcidio do Amaral is the ruling Workers' Party most senior figure in Congress and has been a smooth negotiator with the
  
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• Africa's Mother Teresa: 'I'm not that fond of religions'

  26-11-2015 19:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nairobi's slum nun gets ready to meet the Pope after nearly 40 years of work in Kenya.
  
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• New York's Thanksgiving parade draws huge crowd amid tight security

  26-11-2015 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kylie Gumpert and Alexander Besant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spectators packed Manhattan sidewalks on Thursday to watch the marching bands, floats and giant balloons of Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, held without incident under tight security almost two weeks after deadly attacks in Paris. New York officials expected more than 3 million spectators to have lined the route for the city's signature parade in its 89th year. President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans on Wednesday they
  
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